Joe Formica is the Founder of Bitesize UX, where he works every day to solve "need experience, to get experience" problem that prevents people from exploring new skills, roles, and careers in technology. He believes that learning as an adult should be exciting, fun, and rewarding - not daunting. Joe has taught UX Design at General Assembly in New York for six years as a Distinguished Faculty Member, and has created and taught MBA Entrepreneurship courses at Fordham University Business School. Th...
Feb 07, 2021•47 min•Ep. 21
Watch the video version of this interview on YouTube GUEST BIO Matt ‘Mills’ Miller founded digital product design studio Ustwo with John Sinclair in 2004. In the 14 years since, Ustwo expanded to include an independent games studio and Ustwo adventure: a startup fund and incubator that supports early-stage startups and digital companies. The company’s driving ethos is to create meaningful products and services. Alongside designing products for the likes of Sky and Facebook, it developed Google D...
Jan 24, 2021•51 min•Ep. 20
Watch the video version of this interview on YouTube GUEST BIO: As a fresh business graduate, Alen Faljic joined the design agency IDEO Munich as a business designer. The world of design quickly fascinated him as he wasn’t familiar with user-centricity and the power of design. However, he soon started to notice the gap between the design and business communities. As someone working in the intersection of the two, he decided to explore deeper into the relationship between the two. Today, Alen is ...
Jan 11, 2021•53 min•Ep. 19
Morgane Peng is responsible for the design vision and strategy of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking. She delivers united and meaningful experiences with her team across Societe Generale products for start-ups, corporates, and financial institutions. Previously, Morgane adventured into various fields of consulting, financial markets, and tech. In her spare time, she’s a gamer at heart and works on an indie video game successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter. SUPPORT KORULDIA RPG ...
Dec 28, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 18
Caleb Kingston is a serial entrepreneur and award winning designer. He runs his own agency, Brainspin where he’s spent the last decade designing cutting edge solutions for the healthcare industry and many startups. He’s also a YouTube star and online teacher at App Design Tips. LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN SKILLS: Level up your design skills by taking premier courses on Adobe XD, Figma at AppDesignTips.com CONNECT WITH CALEB KINGSTON: Connect with Caleb Kingston on LinkedIn Watch Caleb Kingston's latest...
Dec 14, 2020•44 min•Ep. 17
Luke Thomas is the founder of Friday, an asynchronous update platform that helps distributed teams stay connected. Previously, Luke was Head of Product at Crystal and has been working remotely since 2013. Outside of work, Luke enjoys hanging out with his family and he lives in Portland, Maine. If you ever visit, he will gladly show you around town. INCREASE THE PRODUCTIVITY OF YOUR REMOTE TEAM Sign up for a free Friday trial . No credit card required! CONNECT WITH LUKE THOMAS: Follow Luke Thomas...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 16
User Experience Designer and co-founder of Clearleft, Andy is a best selling tech author, curates the UX London and Leading Design conferences and helped set-up The Brighton Digital Festival. Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences like SXSW, Awwwards and The Next Web. He currently runs an online community of over 1,500 Heads, Directors and VPs of Design, and is a founding member of Adobe's Design Circle. Andy has appeared on both the Wired 100 and BIMA 100 lists, as well as winni...
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 15
Martin Ramsin grew up in Stockholm and developed a love of computers at an early age. His first job as a programming intern took him to San Francisco just as the internet bubble was about to burst. On moving to Berlin he became interested in creating products and decided to take up web development again and learned Ruby on Rails from free tutorials. On meeting Raffaela they founded CareerFoundry in order to help other people realize their potential. BECOME A UX DESIGNER AND GET A JOB GUARANTEE C...
Nov 02, 2020•50 min•Ep. 14
Watch the video version of this interview on YouTube GUEST BIO: Abhinav Chhikara got his start in design in 2011 by designing iOS apps for freelance projects on oDesk. Prior to that he was an early employee & the Head of Design at Unacademy, an ed-tech startup that's now valued over $1.4B & has raised from global investors like SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Facebook, General Atlantic etc. After spending 2.5 years there, building the design team from scratch & helping build one of the bi...
Oct 19, 2020•41 min•Ep. 13
Craig Mod is a Japan-based author and photographer. His books include Kissa by Kissa, Koya Bound, and Art Space Tokyo. He is a MacDowell, VCCA, and Ragdale fellow. His writing and photography has appeared in Eater, The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, The New Yorker, and other publications. SUPPORT CRAIG MOD: Become a Special Projects Member and support Craig's creative work! CONNECT WITH CRAIG MOD: Follow Craig Mod on Twitter Follow Craig Mod on Instagram Sign up for Craig Mod's monthly ne...
Oct 05, 2020•59 min•Ep. 12
Watch the video version of this interview on YouTube GUEST BIO: Punit Chawla is an avid Youtube design creator and wants to leave an impact on the world. JOIN INDIA'S MOST AFFORDABLE DESIGN SCHOOL: Level up your UX/UI skills and by joining DesignWings.in CONNECT WITH PUNIT CHAWLA: Connect with Punit Chawla on LinkedIn Follow Punit Chawla on Instagram Watch Punit Chawla's latest design tutorials on YouTube LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE): Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to gro...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 11
Felix is a Product Designer whose purpose is to constantly reinvent the way we experience the world around us and beyond by designing impactful products people love. He has worked with multiple global startups and is currently a full time Design Lead at Gotrade (YC S19). Felix previously co-founded Packdat which was acquired in 2018 and was the former Head of Product and Design at Passpod Indonesia. JOIN ADPList(Amazing Design People List) Find design jobs on ADPList.org Sign up as a mentor and ...
Sep 07, 2020•41 min•Ep. 10
Tom has been building tools for the creative industry for nearly a decade. He's currently working on Clover – a notebook that allows creatives to work visually. Before that, he drove product design and strategy for InVision. He joined the InVision team via acquisition of his first startup – Macaw – which built responsive web design tools. Before that he designed tools for Apple and Oracle, was acquihired by Twitter, and helped MIT design and launch edX. CONNECT WITH TOM GIANNATTASIO: Connect wit...
Aug 24, 2020•42 min•Ep. 9
Anil Reddy is an artist by heart, designer by soul and an entrepreneur by choice. Anil is the Founder and Design Director of Lollypop.Design, a research driven design studio that is restructuring the way consumers think about the digital experience. From two people working out of a garage, today, Lollypop is 130+ people strong with offices all over the world. Lollypop studio has impacted a billion lives via clients like Myntra, Swiggy etc. Lollypop has garnered national and international recogni...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 8
Matt D. Smith is the owner and Design Director at Studio MDS , a small independent design studio in Athens, GA. He created the Float Label Pattern for digital input fields, the Contrast app for checking WCAG 2.0 color contrast ratios, and Flowkit for creating user flows inside your favorite design tool. He's currently working on an intensive interface design course called Shift Nudge .He's a proud father of four. TOPICS: 3:13: MDS's journey to getting a ripped physique 7:26: What drives MDS(Matt...
Aug 12, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 7
Tony Daussat is an award-winning designer currently working as a Lead Experience Design Strategist at Bottle Rocket Studios in Dallas, TX. He has worked with some of the world’s most exacting brands including: Hyatt, KFC, BaylorScott & White, Dave & Busters, Fiesta Restaurant Group, Caesars Entertainment, TripCase, FirstData, and Robert Half, to name a few. He has started and sold two online companies, and is currently the host of the Liftoff podcast, boasting listeners in 150 countries....
Jul 31, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 6
Gary Gattis is a creative interdisciplinary leader guiding people and processes to improve our world. His specialties include growth, operations, and management. He has founded several companies at the intersection of technology and design, and led extremely diverse teams to success. He is currently CEO for Hypergiant Galactic Systems, focussed on integrating Artificial Intelligence with the commercialization of Space. Outside of work he can usually be found buried in a good sci-fi novel. TOPICS...
Jul 04, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 5
GUEST BIO: Cassini Nazir is a designer of conversations, curriculum, and interfaces. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of North Texas where he teaches class in design thinking. Prior to joining UNT, he taught interaction design at UT Dallas. He recently served as Designer-in-Residence for the SMU Masters in Design and Innovation program. Previously, he was Director of Design and Research for the ArtSciLab, a transdisciplinary research lab helping the arts, science, and techn...
Jun 12, 2020•52 min•Ep. 4
GUEST BIO: Ryan Burke is an experienced senior sales and business development executive, specializing in scaling early stage companies and driving enterprise level sales. Most recently, Ryan was the Senior Vice President of International for InVision, the leading design collaboration platform used by 4 million people worldwide and 100% of Fortune 100 companies. Ryan is also an active angel investor, advisor to multiple early stage startups, and an expert on building remote teams and culture. He ...
May 23, 2020•44 min•Ep. 3
GUEST BIO: Ryan Rumsey is the CEO and founder of Second Wave Dive, where he develops boutique leadership programs for professionals in the digital product and services industries. Second Wave Dive has worked with product, design, and executive leaders from companies like Google, IBM, Lyft, Workday, ConsenSys, Autodesk, and ANZ. Ryan has a hybrid background in interaction design, front-end development, and product management. Previously he led digital product innovation and transformation at Appl...
May 03, 2020•42 min•Ep. 2
Stephen is currently the Chief of Staff for the office of the CEO at InVision App. Stephen was an early member of the team, helping scale the org from 30 to 850+ fully distributed team members over the past 5 years. He's passionate about digital product design, building organizational infrastructure, and engaging with his community. Previously Stephen helped build out InVision’s partnerships, corp dev, product management, product research teams. He’s based in Mesa, Arizona where he was born and ...
Apr 19, 2020•47 min•Ep. 1
What is the Design MBA podcast about? Why did I start it? Most importantly, why the heck should you even listen to it? For show notes please visit: www.designmba.show To learn how to become a design entrepreneur, please visit my blog: www.blog.designmba.show Connect with me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE: https://www.sneakpeek.design/
Apr 12, 2020•1 min
